Eurythmics

Released: November 9, 1987

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Annie Lennox

Producer: David A. Stewart

[Verse 1]
Words of power are killing me
While the sun displays its teeth
All mockery is laughing
All violence is cheap
She said
"These are my guns
These are my furs
This is my living room"
"You can play with me there sometimes
If you catch me in the mood"

[Chorus]
Savage
Savage
Savage
You savage...

[Verse 2]
She said
"I have this unhappiness
To wear around my neck"
"It's a pretty piece of jewellery
To show what I protect"
She said
"Everything is fiction
All cynic to the bone"
"So don't ask me to stay with you
Don't ask to see me home"

[Chorus]
Savage
Savage
Savage
You savage...

[Bridge]
Savage
Savage
You...
(You...)
You savage...

[Outro]
Savage
Savage
Savage
You savage...

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Annie Lennox met Dave Stewart, with whom she formed the band Catch with singer-songwriter Peet Coombes. Catch released one single before adding two more members and changing their name to The Tourists. Under that name, the band scored five UK hits before Coombes' substance abuse broke the band apart.

Lennox and Stewart continued writing together – with Stewart moving from guitar to synthesizer and Lennox adopting an androgynous look – and formed Eurythmics. Within a few years, the duo was propelled into international stardom when “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”, a single from their second album, became a top ten hit in nine countries.

Over the decade, the duo moved away from their dark new wave sound and S&M imagery, evolving into a more mainstream synthpop band. In that time, they scored twenty-one UK top 40’s (ten of which were also US top 40 hits). In 1990, Eurythmics quietly disbanded and Lennox took a break from music to have her first child.

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